Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Offer your first words to Heaven after rising from your bed in the morning.
When you take your first steps outside the home, you should step with your right foot first, dedicating your first steps to Heaven.
Think of it as graduating from a fallen lifestyle which the world glorifies, to a life centered on God.
If you are able to develop such habits, then your life will become a life of attendance. When we look from this viewpoint, we see the importance of living our every moment in daily attendance to the Father above.
After we have risen for and prepared for the morning, all of our feelings and actions must be unified into a straight line for the course of the day, centering on one goal.
Who can deny that when we lose focus, we will not be able to connect to His will for our day?
Heaven is where you can take pride in your life of attendance.
With this kind of standard with our thoughts and foot set on heaven at the beginning of the day, what kind of person can enter heaven?
Heaven is not the place for those who are only expecting to receive blessings based on the simple fact that they believe in the Lord.
The Unification Church has a belief that Jesus has returned working through the body of Reverend Sun Myung Moon who is the Second Coming. Even if the whole world was to believe that Reverend Moon was the Messiah, just based on this faith alone they will not be able to enter heaven. The Bible states that faith without works is dead.
Q: Who is heaven prepared for?
Heaven is made for those who have prepared their hearts on earth in order to attend Heavenly Parent and His Will. Such people leave a life behind on earth full of attendance and joyfully move on, even though they may die in the process for the cause. This is where resurrection is found.
Now, we three -- God, True Parents and you -- must become one.
We have to act in concert to this principle.
All three entities must unite at the point where they come together. This realm of resurrection is the connecting point where oneness comes, where True Parents and you become one and unite together.
Since this is a decisive question of life and death, all three must unite at the point where they come together.
Therefore, your life should be a life of oneness in line with God's Will.
Within a 24-hour period, you should look, listen to all things for the sake of God. This principle excludes the world's viewpoint of living for oneself.
Even though our feet are planted here on earth, we have to be connected with life in the heavenly world and live that way.
If you are unable to yearn for God every day, you cannot attend Him. When you yearn for someone, you should always be immersed in longing. It concerns God when we say that it is already midnight and it is time to go to bed, because the Kingdom of Heaven does not have a concept of day or night. Night poses no difficulty when you are living and embracing centering on an unified heart.
In the original world or homeland God had plan, as a rule we were to live, think and love centered on ourselves only AFTER we had attained oneness with God. We should know this clearly. Therefore in the originally world, thinking, loving and centering on ourselves would not be selfish or a sin, because we would have centered all of these actions on God.
The extent that you have devoted yourself on earth to attending Heavenly Father will become your asset.
We should each become the sons and daughters who are able to receive a response after calling for the Father from the situation of having created a valley of tears. When you call out, "Father", He should reply, "Yes, I am here,"
When you are able to call out to Heavenly Father from a place of piercing pain, shedding blood, sweat and tears, He will reply, "I have endured, so you can, too." The question then, is how much can you attend the Father, how much can you consult with Him in your pain and live with Him in such situation.
Even if you were to call out to Father from a place o self-centered glory, it would not matter because God has not seen His day of glory.
Seriously think about this: when you are hungry, for whom do you eat? If you were to say "Oh, I'm Hungry...food, food, food!", you should feel that you are eating for God. Why should you do this?
It is because you have become a holy temple of God and you should think as God's holy temple, "When I am hungry, God is inside of me telling me to eat." If you are able to eat in this way, that meal will become a sacred and holy meal.
Establishing a heavenly life through attendance
No matter how much humanity squabbles over if God exists or not, He is not a fantasy or a conceptual God. Nor is Heavenly parent an abstract God.
With His leadership in our daily life, He is always with us as the master of our daily circumstances.
He does not just receive our attendance, but He lives with us together by sharing love. This is God's dream for humanity.
If we do not make a beginning point where God is able to enter our mind, and where we are able to become completely one body with God, then there is no way to liquidate the devil's world.
When we are able to look from this higher viewpoint, we then understand that this is the time of the age of attendance as the age of salvation by justification through attendance.
We are saved through attendance.
Christianity has been taught that God is a god that is way up in the sky far removed from creation or humanity. We should be able to attend God as the master in our daily life.
There is custom in society to glorify those in a higher position such as celebrities even calling them idols, but we should be careful to keep God as the master.
How many times during the day are you aware that God exists?
How many times in a 24-hour period do you feel God’s presence?
Normally, people of faith will attend God during Saturday or Sunday service and the rest of the week will be devoted to work or family.
How is it possible to be truly saved through attendance and attend God through only two hours a week, or even two hours in a day?
How do you attend God? You should attend Him in your daily activities and with your whole heart.
The problem we face now is how to create a new tradition from the standard of attendance that God wants from the individual, family, church, this nation and this people.
We should feel to the depth of our bones that God is something that you need more desperately then you need air and even more than you need water.
God is more precious than your meals. Yet, do you really feel this?
From now on we should live a life of attendance. Up until now, salvation has been through faith, but we should attain salvation through attending God in our daily lives. Originally, if humankind had not left their position we would have followed God’s normal path of attending Him from the beginning.
Even as people of faith who welcome the hope of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth we have not fully welcomed a Kingdom of Heaven where we attend and practiced the words of God. We have not become aware in our daily lives of God as our subject partner.
What is the purpose of people of faith suffering for six thousands of years if we do not have the hope that God’s original ideal will bear fruit?
We continue to fight for the sake of understanding God’s circumstances He encounter due to our disobedience in the beginning. Also, to understand His deep heart as the Bible demonstrated and understand that God relates to all peoples of different ethnic groups and nations with a parental heart.
We should understand that God has been wounded, trampled upon and rejected and torn to pieces whenever we choose to not believe in His Will or His words.
We are living in the Completed Testament Age which is the age of love. Therefore we are able to marry. Throughout history, higher-level religions highlighted the need for celibacy and solitude and forego marriage because love was not yet sanctified until now.
With the Second Coming, love has been restored and God’s history of pain and true heart full of emotion is being taught for the first time in human history.
God is the center of the universe. So, when you go near Him, you also want to be governed by Him for even tens of thousands of years and even longer. This is the way to attend God. There is no greater happiness.
Why do we seek justification through faith, works and attendance?
If we are not justified, we will not be able to distinguish what is the true standard of the good world and the evil world. Then the two worlds would not be separated, therefore we need these standards.
Q: What is the standard of righteousness? It is God and what He believes how He works and attends is the set standard.
Why do you think you cannot accuse righteous people who resemble God?
Satan will not be able to intervene in your works if you create an environment where God’s faith, works and standard live through you.
Even if you were to live within the satanic realm or environment, if you were to establish a righteous standard that enables you to be with God even in that low place, Satan will withdraw from there.
After the Old Testament Age where we could restore through work and the New Testament Age of restoring through faith to our original position there is more that remains after this Completed Testament Age of attendance.
Even in this age, we need to do works, have faith and we also need to lead a life of attendance.
This completes the three stages: formation, growth and completion which cannot be separated.
In the Unification Church, it states that salvation comes through attendance. It is justification through attendance; in other words, salvation through attendance. When men buy suits for each season, they should be doing that for Father as well. Moreover, since He does not have a body, they should combine a monetary offering with their devotion instead.
During these seasons, they should make an offering in the donation box for the sake of the church, with a tearful heart of attending God, regardless of whether anyone is watching. If they can do so, that devotion will accumulate in the Ark of the Covenant. This way of living should be real and expressed; not remain only as a concept.
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Why should we live a life of attendance? It is to receive God's law.
Up until now, living a life based on faith brought salvation on the spiritual level. From now on, you attain salvation through attendance. This would have been the normal path of attending God which we would have learn from our perfected, unfallen parents or true parents.
Everything can be restored through leading a life of attendance.
Since the Second Coming, we have passed into the age of the parents. We are paving the road whereby God can be actually present on earth. This is why we are able to be saved through attending him when He comes.
Even though we are entering the realm of attendance and bringing about the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, there is only a certain standard we should develop in order to join such an extraordinary age.
We must posses the heart which can understand and comfort a sorrowful God and to experience together with Him His painful circumstances in having devoted Himself and to be rejected by His children.
The principles of restoration reveal this and teach humanity how we are able to set indemnity conditions or restore our individual, family and world sinful history in front of God.
Why is it necessary to live a life of attendance?
We do so in order to receive God’s love.
We see in the world today, many people searching and looking for ways to find love and happiness. All of these options are not only temporary, but they are without God leaving individuals and the world empty trying to fill a hole only God can fill.
For this reason, we should serve God first. We should, therefore, attend Him.
Breaking heavenly laws displeases God.
Those who are parents have more of a capacity to understand God’s heart creation and His parental heart in watching His children.
Just as a human father places rules for his own children’s protection, there are laws in attending God. We must know how to obey these laws in our daily lives.
Heaven demands that you must keep Heaven's ways.
It is not enough just to know Heaven’s ways and laws, but we must live Heaven’s ways. We must become one with Heaven’s love.
Any person that is able to discern when God is happy or sad would not be able to become evil even if He tried? Such a person would not be able to go against the law of heaven even if he tried.
This person would never be able to give into the temptation to a beautiful woman and go against God. He would not be able to be drawn in to something that is not of God.
Today, there are many unhappy young people who escape and run away fro their families because the heavenly law of love has been lost throughout the generations.
Based on this, the parent of heaven and earth must appear and allow God to be seated there.
There can be no complaint where the object partner exists for the subject partner. Any type of complaint would be an act of rashness and lead to failure. This complaint is not allowed in any way in a life of faith.
You should only be thankful in that position. Heaven will always be subject. There are no rules that or ways of life that moves away from this principle.
Heavenly law is established when the order is properly followed.
When there is a relationship interchanged between the subject and object partners, then God must stand and become the absolute subject.
Any person who ignores the subject cannot become His object partner.
If you main goal is to become the absolute object before the absolute subject then you both will become absolutely one. Thus, everything that you see, hear and feel, even in your loving relationships in your family are for the sake of God, who stands as the subject partner to you who is His object partner. Everything in creation works in this way. A family that can live in this way will never perish.
What can last until the end?
It is God plus man, God and man, God and man’s life, and God and man’s daily outlook. Also, it is God and man’s view of life, God and man’s world view. These are not just vague understandings about God.
These represent an eternal bond with Hi where there is no separation.
Why is that? After the Fall, since God and man were separated, they should never have never have been separate, but reached a higher position than where they were in the beginning through the stages of growth.
In such a place, they should come forward demanding a global stage, a stage for daily life where God and being become one.
In order to be victorious, you must live with God. You ultimately establish a victorious foundation only by having absolute conviction, and through leading your life in unity with God through attending Him. This is the clear path of restoring man fully back to our original position.
Return for Tomorrow’s Post: God and Humans Relate as Parent, Child
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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Seven, Chapter One, Section 1,2
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